Client-Server Protocols

ALSO CALLED:
Client-Server,
Client-Server Computing,
Client/ServerDEFINITION: Client/server describes the relationship between two computer programs in which one program, the client, makes a service request from another program, the server, which fulfills the request. Although the client/server idea can be used by programs within a single computer, it is a more important idea in a network. In a network, the client/server model provides a convenient way to interconnect programs
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CLIENT-SERVER PROTOCOLS DEFINITION (continued): that are distributed efficiently across different locations. Computer transactions using the client/server model are very common. For example, to check your bank account from your computer, a client program in your computer forwards your request to a server program at the bank. That program may in turn forward the request to its own client program that sends a request to a database server at another bank computer to retrieve your account balance. The balance is returned back to the bank data client, which in turn serves it back to the client in your personal computer, which displays the information Client-Server Protocols definition sponsored by SearchNetworking.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary

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